Predictable Experience for Lync Meru Networks

Ajay Malik, SVP, Engineering & Products

Sarosh Vesuna, VP & GM, Enterprise Networking Business

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Meru at-a-Glance

HQ in Silicon Valley 2013 Revenue Mix Global Company

Market: Enterprise Wireless LANs / Founded: January 2002 / IPO: March 2010 / Ticker: NASDAQ: MERU

Offices in

22 Countries

62%

29%

9%

Americas

EMEA

APAC

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The Typical Network Architecture

Wired Switch

Wi-Fi Access Point

End user experience depends not

only on how good the Wi-Fi is but

how good you have control over

wired network

Applications

Servers

A Typical Network

A Typical Network Requires Effort

Manual CLI/Scripts

Box-by-box

Human middleware

A Typical Network Element

Every element has its own intelligence

& configuration

Every vendor defines unique ways to

configure the box

Mgmt Plane Telnet, SSH, SNMP,

NTP, SYSLOG, HTTP, FTP/TFTP

Control Plane Network topology, ACLs, Forwarding & Routing, QoS, Link Management

Forwarding Plane Link, Switching,

Forwarding, Routing

Transceivers

CPU

Flash

Memory

Switching ASIC

SDN – A Brief History

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Connectivity at the edge of an enterprise network is more than just a wired or wireless LAN

infrastructure. Enterprises must chose infrastructure vendors that can integrate wired and

wireless networking products Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure Published: 13 June 2012

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

History of SDN

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Martin Casado, a

PhD student

at Stanford

University in

Silicon Valley,

California,

developed

something called

Ethane.

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

History of SDN

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

OpenFlow Concept

Originated at Stanford – work

by Casado and McKeown

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

History of SDN

Martin Casado,

a PhD student

at Stanford

University in

Silicon Valley,

California,

developed

something

called Ethane.

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

OpenFlow Concept

Originated at Stanford – work

by Casado and McKeown

The term SDN coined by MIT

Technology Review when

Casado and McKeown’s work

at Stanford was featured in the

TR10 in March/April 2009

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

History of SDN

Martin Casado, a

PhD student

at Stanford

University in

Silicon Valley,

California,

developed

something called

Ethane.

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

OpenFlow Concept

Originated at Stanford – work

by Casado and McKeown

The term SDN coined by MIT

Technology Review when

Casado and McKeown’s work

at Stanford was featured in the

TR10 in March/April 2009

History of SDN

NEC

champions

OpenFlow Martin Casado, a

PhD student

at Stanford

University in

Silicon Valley,

California,

developed

something called

Ethane.

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

OpenFlow Concept

Originated at Stanford – work

by Casado and McKeown

The term SDN coined by MIT

Technology Review when

Casado and McKeown’s work

at Stanford was featured in the

TR10 in March/April 2009

HP makes a major push in

SDN Champions OpenFlow/

SDN. Over 15 million

OpenFlow enabled ports

History of SDN

NEC

champions

OpenFlow Martin Casado, a

PhD student

at Stanford

University in

Silicon Valley,

California,

developed

something called

Ethane.

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

OpenFlow Concept

Originated at Stanford – work

by Casado and McKeown

The term SDN coined by MIT

Technology Review when

Casado and McKeown’s work

at Stanford was featured in the

TR10 in March/April 2009

HP makes a major push in

SDN Champions OpenFlow/

SDN. Over 15 million

OpenFlow enabled ports

2013: NEC as 1st OpenFlow

Certified Wired company

History of SDN

NEC

champions

OpenFlow Martin Casado, a

PhD student

at Stanford

University in

Silicon Valley,

California,

developed

something called

Ethane.

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Gartner Publishes ONE Magic

Quadrant for the Wired and

Wireless LAN Access

Infrastructure

OpenFlow Concept

Originated at Stanford – work

by Casado and McKeown

The term SDN coined by MIT

Technology Review when

Casado and McKeown’s work

at Stanford was featured in the

TR10 in March/April 2009

HP makes a major push in

SDN Champions OpenFlow/

SDN. Over 15 million

OpenFlow enabled ports

2013: NEC as 1st OpenFlow

Certified Wired company

Meru Networks

announces 1st OpenFlow

Conformant WLAN

Controller

History of SDN

NEC

champions

OpenFlow Martin Casado, a

PhD student

at Stanford

University in

Silicon Valley,

California,

developed

something called

Ethane.

The SDN Advantage

network element

SDN Controller API

SDN

Devices EXPOSE API to program

its forwarding plane

A software, SDN Controller makes

all forwarding decisions.

SDN Controller Mgmt Plane

Telnet, SSH, SNMP, NTP, SYSLOG,

HTTP, FTP/TFTP

Transceivers

CPU

Flash

Memory

Switching ASIC

Forwarding Plane Link, Switching,

Forwarding, Routing

A Typical Network with SDN

SDN Controller

Holistic View

Programmable

SDN

Unified Communications and Wi-Fi

SDN Wi-Fi – Enable OpenFlow

Access Point

SDN Controller

WLAN Controller

SDN Wi-Fi - Enables Unified Wired-Wireless

SDN Controller

WLAN Controller

Access Point

Wired

Switch

Holistic visibility of wired and wireless

networks

Predictable QoS across the unified

network

Diagnostic across the unified network

SDN Wi-Fi - Enables Vendor Agnostic

SDN Controller

WLAN Controller

Access Point

Wired

Switch

SDN Wi-Fi - Enables Applications

WLAN Controller

Access Point

SDN Controller

Wired

Switch

Network

Intelligence

Applications

Business

Intelligence

Applications

With SDN Wi-Fi, you achieve

Holistic visibility of wired and wireless networks

No Vendor Lock-in (mix and match)

Predictable Service Quality the unified network

Insight/Analytics across the unified network

Diagnostic/Troubleshooting across the unified network`

Unified Wired Wireless is the PROBLEM that SDN for Enterprise can

solve, and can solve very well!

Meru Collaborator

Meru Collaborator

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WLAN Controller

Access Point

SDN Controller

Wired Switch

Meru

Collaborator

Lync Server

Meru Collaborator

A SDN Application that provides the ability to detect quality of service (QoS) issues on the network, deliver prescriptive resolution options and prioritize traffic across multi-vendor wired and wireless networks.

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Meru Collaborator

Meru Collaborator: Call Details

End-to-end Flow

Distinguish between

Wired/Wireless issues

Meru Collaborator: Dashboard

Traffic Visualization

See traffic distribution

across the network to

understand capacity

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Meru Collaborator: Clients/Sessions

Total

• Corrected

• Errored

Logs

Meru Collaborator: Easy Administration

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Configure Policies

Configure Lync Server

Meru Collaborator Advantages

End to end flow control across Unified Network

Single pane of glass for policy deployment

Diagnosis/Troubleshooting across the unified network

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